A quick note about last meeting -- toilet paper roll figures are
harder than they look, but oh so satisfying when you get one to work
out right. To wit, check out Batty's Patriots Mascot fella:
May 30, 2012
Next SANE meeting Tues 19 June 2012
A quick note about last meeting -- toilet paper roll figures are
harder than they look, but oh so satisfying when you get one to work
out right. To wit, check out Batty's Patriots Mascot fella:
May 20, 2012
SANE Meeting Tues 22 May 2012
This month's meeting will be held at the House of Pam (A) (thanks, Pam!), this coming Tuesday. The project will be convert innocent, plain little toilet paper rolls into expressive and colorful little figures, Crom willing.
What to bring:
1) Well, toilet paper rolls, for a start (duh!). Even paper towel rolls would work, with a greater level of difficulty. Since the last email, I've collected a shoebox full, so may have spares. Perhaps I'll build a chess set, hmm.
2) I suspect a few tools might be handy. It might be useful to have an X-acto knife or suchlike, to facilitate some difficult folds. Also, some implements that you can insert into the tube to help make a mountain fold (if origami were projected upon cylindrical geometry): sturdy chop sticks, a butter knife, even a spoon (long-handled spoon?) might be useful to help push out a crisp curved fold. Even shallow molds might be useful (say, two same-sized 1/4-tsp measures, that you could use inside and outside the tube, squishing the cardboard into shallow depressions or bulges.
3) Some type of coloration. See the blog entry for April 25. Click on the smaller images to get bigger ones. Dryish media like craons, chalk or charcoal -- even paste shoe polish, -- might work, as would stamp pads to rub the figures against, but gouache or paint should work, also.
4) Huge bunches of imagination. Or small bunches. Whatever you have handy, really. Since the last email, I've collected a thimble full, but I keep spilling. Perhaps I'll build a small squat Acropolis.
In our copulous free time, we'll chat about LobstaWorld (tenatively planned for Satday 28 July), the nature of life, and starting our own automat downtown. And figure out our June meeting time, and what to do. You know, the usual!
See y'all thar,